[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Books Falling
The Future Has An Ancient Heart
The future has an ancient heart. Carlo Levi Cheryl Strayed’s tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugarfell into my hands at a bookstore years ago. I had just moved to a different part of the country. I knew no one. I had l...
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Poetry
Calling Dreams
The right to make my dreams come true, I ask, nay, I demand of life, From Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Calling Dreams" We have the right to make our dreams come true. What an amazing, hopeful, optimistic, inspiring thought. It reminds me of the...
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Poetry
Brave Space
We have the responsibility to examine what we think we know./ We will not be perfect. This space will not be perfect./ It will not always be what we wish it to be./ But/ It will be our brave space together, and/ We will work on it side by side. Beth ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Intrepid
Intrepid — adjective — extremely brave and showing no fear of dangerous situations: a team of intrepid explorers. Synonyms — brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, valiant. Cambridge Dictionary I watch the Olympics eating peanuts ...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
